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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 28. 1013.
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Where and With Wham Was
Mary Phagan Before End?
w
itli whom
Slaying of Mary Phagan Arouses
Friends of Family to Threats
of Violence.
"I wouldn't havi- liked to he held
responsible for the fate of the mur
derer of little Mary Phagan If the men
in this neighborhood had got hold of
him last night." was the statement!
‘to-day of Georg W Epps, 246 Fox
Street, whose home adjoin* that of
Mrs. Coleman, mother of the slain
giri.
By to-day the first hot wave of In-:
dlgnation that cried for the blood of (
the criminal had had time to subside, t
but the feeling still ran high in the,
neighborhood of the Coleman home.
The murder was the sole topic of j
conversation Men who knew the,
family and others who had seen Mary
go to her work in the morning con
gregated In excited groups on the J
street corners. At first they were not ,
willing that the law should take its
course. They feared that the mur- j
dcrer. if he were caught, might In
some way escape the c onsequences of
his crime.
Sympathy for Stricken Mother.
in the homes of the shocked com
munity the women talked in hushed
tones of the tragic end of Mary Pha
gan Might not their own innocent
little girls be in danger of the aame
fate? Was it safe to permit them to
go alone about the city, even in the
light of broad day? They were filled
with gratitude that it was not any on* 1
of their homes on which the pall of
the great tragedy had fallen, but their
hearts went out in sympathy for the;
stricken mother.
Some of them were with their hus
bands in the first cry for vengeance
that went up when the news of the 1
crime was brought to the neighbor
hood. They saw the imminent dan
ger hovering over the childhood of t
the city. They saw the peril of their
own little ones. The author of the
black crime must be punished as he 1
deserved, and at once, they Insisted
To-dav they are saying that the
>oung working girls of the city arc
considered the rightful prey of tin* i
beasts in men’s clothes that go about !
the city.
Tragedy Comes Home to Them.
"We aie nil working people out}
here." said Mr. Epps, who was stand- L
ing In a group of his neighbors "In
half the homes the boys and girls do
what the> can to help in the support
of the family Tills means, that out
•children are not safe on the streets,
even 1n the daytime.
The tragedy comes home to us all
for we me all in a little community
here. It is a little village in itself,
and every one knows every' one else.
It was a hard blow t
learned the terrible story of Marj
Phagan’s death. Hardly a one of us |
bu; knew the Util
sight
"The men here were aflame with in
dignation last night. It would have
must be filled,
'’uetorv at tell
pay due her,
sure she then
Detect iv< - to-day are. using all their resources to learn where Mary
was everv minute of Saturday and Saturday night, whom she saw,
she talked, and what she said.
There are wide blanks in the storv of’ her movements. These
12:10p.m.—Mon Phagan appeared at the National Pencil 1
or fifteen minutes after 12 o’clock noon, Saturday, and drew the
■■R.CO. She chatted a few minutes with friends.. The manager is
left the building.
She told her mother she was going to see the Memorial Day parade.
Did she go straight from the factory to see the procession? Who joined her?
Where did she stand? When the procession had passed, where did she go ? Did
someone, that early in the day, start weaving around her the net which later
caused her death ?
10 p. m.—E. S. Skipper, 224 1-2 Peters Street, saw a girl answering the de
scription of Mary Phagan at about 10 o’clock Saturday night. She was walking
up Pryor Street near Trinity with three youths. She was crying, and seemed to
be trying to get, away from her companions. She seemed to be under the in
fluence of an opiate, not of drink.
Was this, in truth, Mary Phagan? If so, who were the youths? Where had
they been, and where did they go ?
12:30 a. m. hi. L. Sentell, who had known Mary Phagan nearly all her life,
saw her with a man ho identities as Arthur Mullinax. walking north on Forsyth
Street near Hunter at about 12:30 o’clock Sunday morning. The girl was tired
and angry. Site spoke to Dim.
Did she and her companion go at once to the pencil factory?
If not. where did they go?
3 a. m.—The mutilated body of Mary Phagan was found in a dark corner of
the National Pencil Factory basement, 37-39 South Forsyth Street, by the night
watchman.
Here arc the gaps from 12:15 Saturday afternoon to 10 o’clock Saturday
night. From 10 o’clock Saturday night .to 12:30 o’clock Sunday morning. From
12:30 o’clock Sunday morning until 3 o’clock Sunday morning.
When the police and detectives have filled in these blanks, the murderer of
Man - Phagan will be known.
Lane Too Busy to 1 Augustan Held as
Accept High Honor j Thief Blames Races
Climax in Church
Contest Sunday
Secretary of the Interior Cannot (JoL A 9 cd Man ' Charged With Misappro-j
Telegram From Kahn Intimates
That Backers of Metropolitan
Company May Attend.
Otto H Kahn, chairman of the
boarS of directors of the Metropolitan
opera Company, has assojred Colonel
to California to Receive Degree
of LL. D,
WASHINGTON. April 28.—Secre
tary of the Interior Franklin lv Lane
has been forced by pressure of pubic
business to decline an invitation
from Dr. Benjamin Icie Wheeler,
president of the University of Cali
fornia, to receive the highest honor
within the gift of the university, the
degree of LL. D.
At that time it is the intention
of the University of California to con
fer the degree upon Colonel George
W. Goethals. chairman of the Isth
mian Canal Commission, and the di
recting genius of construction work
upon the Panama (’anal.
W L. Peel, president of the Atlanta
Music- Festival Association, in a tele
gram made public to-day, that the
great musical organization w ill be
only too glad to appear again in At
lanta next year. ]
The telegram indicates that Mr.
Kahn and other New York directors, j
lenders In the financial world «n< J ! J ime80n president of Mercer Uni-
foremost backers of grand opera, in-
tend t,, he present. verslty, is coneidenng the offer made
Colonel Peel telegraphed Mr Kahn by Ouachita Baptist College of Arka-
late Saturday night, advising him of dplDhia Ar li He probably will tie-
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JAMESON PROBABLY WILL
DECLINE ARKANSAS OFFER
MACON. GA., April 28.—Rev f>. Y.
Lifelong Friend Saw Girl
and Man After Midnight
Edgar L. Sentell. twenty-one years
old. a clerk employed In C. J. Kam-
per’s store, and whose home Is at 82
Davis Street, was one of t # he first
to give the detectives a hopeful clue
to the solution of the hideous mys
tery.
Sentell, a well-known young man.
had known Mary Phagan almost all
her life. When she w*as just be
ginning to think of dolls with never
a thought of dreary factories and the
us wh« we | tragedies of lif*>, he used to see her
playing In the streets of East Point
girl, at least by j when her folks lived there She was
a pleasant, cheerful little girl then
and her later years—tragically brief
—had not changed her. Her light
blue eyes laughed at the world
gone hard with the murdeiet of the : blue eye* laughed at the world In
little "Irl if they could have got theti days with all the roguishne*.*
hands on him H <},, 0 rgla country girl’s can, and the
cares and worries that came when
she had to make her own pitiful liv
ing had not obliterated their smile.
It was 30 minutes after midnight,
when Sentell, going home from his
work at Hamper's saw Mary Pha
gan coming down Forsyth Street
to near Hunter
Outside of the stragglers about the
cheap hotels in that district, there
! were few on the streets at that time.
The intermittent lights of cheap fruit
and soda water stands, the flickering
flame of a whistling peanut roaster
here and there, added enough light
to the dull glow of the city lamps to
make pedestrians easily distinguish
able
Mary Phagan, at that hour of the
night, was a conspicuous figure.
Fourteen-vcar-old girls on the streets
of Atlanta at midnight arc not so
plentiful that they're not noticed.
Sentell, then, walking south on For-
e Grand Chapter,! a y»h Street saw Mary Phagan ap
IS. England, of Ce- ; nroachlne him. She was walking a
Georgia Doctor Will
Set Masonic Record
J. P. Bowdoin. of Adairsville,
Head Both Grand Chapter and
Grand Council.
MACON, GA., April 28.—For the
first time in the history of Masonry in
Georgia one man will this year hold
the highest office in both the Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and
the Grand Council of the Koval and
Select Masters. He is Dr J. P. Bow
doin. of Adairsville
This week he will be made grand
high priest of th
succeeding Dr W
irrtit on the inside of the
dart own, and grand master of the j a medium
Grand Council, succeeding Rev. A. E pavement.
Bansbum. of Eatonton. Those two on the curb side of the pavement
organizations will meet here to-mor- parallel with her, keeping step with
row and Wednesday, with about 500 her. but exchanging no words, walk-
Masons in attendan
The twelfth annual session
Of the
order of the Eastern Star will meet
at the same time, with 78 chapters.
‘»epresented by about 150 delegates.
CHORUS GIRLS IN MACON
HAVE PTOMAINE POISONING
MACON. GA
girls of a tabloid
company are tn thf
Rally ill from p
Arriving In the <
troupe went to a <
hour later the \
seized with eonvt
ties are trying to
of food was eat
came infected
il L’s six chorus
musical comedy
lospital. two crit-
tnaine poisoning,
y last night, the
supper. An
► omen were
Mty authorl-
n what kind
tv it be
lt fe f ci
oung
isions
hi
ed a t{Ul slender man.
Exchanged “Hellos.
Sentell looked at him more 'or less
casually but sharply enough to de
scribe him later to the detectives.
’’Hello. Mary" Mild Sentell.
• Hello, Edgar" said Mary
That was all. Sentell kept on his
way. The couple, now behind him
were swallowed up in the gloom of
Forsyth Street.
<To Sentell. Mary Phagan looked
If she was tired or angry. That t
man of mystery was her companion
lie had no doubt. As Sentel
scribed him later tc* the police:
He w as six feet tall or ovei
His hair was black and curly a
his face, not unattractive, was
dark complexion.
He wore a blue suit and tan
and a straw hut. \
He was of slender build and hi
peared to Ik- about twenty-five yearr,
old.
At 9 o’clock yesterday morning
Sentell whs or a street car when he
heard that a girl named Mary Phagan
had been found murdered. He hur
ried to h» r home and found his fear*
were verified. With a boy friend of
the victim’s sister lie hastened to
<’hief Linford’s and on his clue
the detective department got busy at
.pc.
It is known that Mary Phagan
came to the city a few minutes after
noon on Saturday and left an English
Avenue car nt the corner of Broad
and Hunter Streets. Motorman W.
M. Matthews knew the girl from hav
ing had her as i passenger on his
car a number of times and says pos
itively that she left Ills car at the
corner >f Broad and Hunter Streets
and that he saw i er walking up Hun
ter Strict in the direction of For
syth. ' Conductor W. T Hollis was
in charge of the < at* that reached the
corner of Marietta and Broad at 12:07
o'clock Saturday afternoon and says
that he knew th~- little girl and that
she was a passenger on the trip into
the city. He was relieved at the cor
ner of Marietta and Broad and does
not know nnythinr further about the
movements «*f the child, although he
says th it be is sure that she was
still on the car when it left the cor
ner going south on Broad Street
Another Sees Companion.
It was reported to the detectives
that Conductor Guy Kennedy of the
English Avenue line had admitted
having brought a young girl, answer
ing the description of the little vic
tim into the city on his car about
6:4.'i o’clock Saturday afternoon, and
had later seen her in company with
a man on the .streets. He is said to
have furnished the detectives with «
description of the mysterious stran
ger but when seen by a Georgian re
porter declined to make any state
ment other than that he had seen
Chief Beavers and that the Chief had
asked that he not say anything aboui
it to anyone. He admitted, however,
that he had seen the man again yes
terday afternoon and the man had
told him that he had been out with
another girl Saturday night,
Having seen th.' man at least twice
and talked with him once. Kenne
dy will undoubtedly be able to rec
ognize him.
TARIFF BILL WILL
AID U.P.-PHE
the splendid success of the week. Mr
Kahn's reply was soon forthcoming
and the warmth of his words demon
strates his entire satisfaction. This
is his complete reply to Colonel Peel:
Directors Here Next Year.
Mr. \Y 1. Peel. Atlanta Music
Festival Association, Atlanta.
Ga.
Delighted with your telegram.
Many thanks in the name of all
directors and on behalf of Metro
politan Opera Company to your
self and your associates and your
splendid and inspiring public, f
knew that all the artists would give
their very best to Atlanta and am
delighted at your public's won
derful response, demonstrating
once more its understanding and
love for operatic art. Our only
regretful thought ie that we were
unable to spend this week among
our friends in Atlanta; but wo
are looking forward with the most
pleasurable anticipations to the
privilege of doing so next year.
Kindest regards and best remem
brances to you all.
OTTO H. KATIN.
Peel Compliments Operagoers.
• 1 want to emphasize,” said colonel
peel. “Everybody connected In any
■ ay with the achievements of the
week has done hie duty.
"Our people have responded nobly
Friends have come in large numbers
from every section of the South to
help us. and to all of them 1 return
sincere thanks for their inspiring
presence and valued support.
dine it.
SURELY SETTLES
UPSET STOMACHS
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digestion, Gas, Sourness
in Five Minutes.
priating $14,000 Belonging to
Ward. Arrested at Track.
AUGUSTA, GA., April 28. A Dep
uty Sheriff left to-day for Baltimore
to bring back to Augusta A. J. Gouley.
the aged Augusta man who is charged
with misappropriating funds of an
estate of which L wav truster, and
also as guardian for a minor child,
Miss Agnes Kernaghan.
The amount involved i 814,000. The
company who was on Gouley’s bond
made the shortage good,
Gouley had been missing since May
1. 1912. and had been traced to Ire
land, .back to New York and to many
places throughout the United States#.
The detective?' finally arrested him at
the Havre DeGraee race track in
Maryland. He Is reported to have
said that gambling was the cause ot'
his downfall.
The .max of the great Sunday
liool attendance contest between
I the Second Baptist and the First
Christian Uhurches will be reached'
I next Sunday morning at a joint sos-
i -4i>m iii the Auditorium instead of in
| th church that won Hie contest. The
I attendance at both schools has in-
i i rased to such an extent that neither
church is large enough.
The event promises to be so strik
ing that motion picture men have an
nounced that they will have films
made of the children marching to
the Auditorium.
The principal speakers will be Dr.
John E. White, pastor of the Second
Baptist Church, and John S. Spald
ing superintendent of the Sunday
school, and Dr. L. C. BRicker, pas*Dr -
of the First Christian Church, and
r. v. LeCraw, superintendent of the
Sunday school.
Attendance at the Baptist school
vesterday was 1.640 and at the Chris
tian 1,946. Since the contest w is
started the Baptist school has gained
488 and the Christian school 226.
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flood of campaign-flavored tariff ora
tory in the House began to ebb to-day
and by to-night the set speeches will |
have been exhausted. To-morrow the 1
House will get d6wn to actual con- 1
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The headliner to-day on the Re
publican side was Representative
Payne, of New York, author of the J
present law which the Democrat-
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Representative Rainey, of Illinois.
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